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<text id=89TT2972>
<title>
Nov. 13, 1989: World Notes:Brazil
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Nov. 13, 1989 Arsenio Hall
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 57
World Notes
BRAZIL
Now, He-e-re's Silvio!
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<p> Talk about timing. With presidential elections just two
weeks away, Silvio Santos, 58, one of Brazil's most popular
television variety-show hosts, last week proclaimed himself a
candidate. The startling announcement might have seemed
laughable -- were Santos' challenge not so serious to the three
leading contenders. If none of the candidates gets an absolute
majority, the two leading candidates go forward from the first
round of balloting on Nov. 15 to the runoff vote on Dec. 17.
Within two days of Santos' announcement, newspaper polls showed
the upstart candidate alternately in first and second place --
meaning he has a shot at making the final cut.
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<p> Still, Santos faces an uphill battle. His candidacy first
must receive official confirmation by the Superior Electoral
Tribunal. Even if Santos is allowed to run, his name will not
appear on the ballot. He must educate Brazilian voters to mark
the box labeled Armando Correa, an evangelist who stepped aside
for Santos as the candidate of the tiny Municipalist Party,
which fields many evangelist candidates. That may prove a
difficult lesson to teach in a country with a high degree of
illiteracy.
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